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there have been 18 republican presidents of the united states. how many democratic presidents have there been? is it a, 12, b 15, c 18 or d, 26? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. if you ever miss a show go to i tunes.com/fareed. you can get the audio podcast for free or you can buy the video version. this week's book of the week is "iron curtain" by ann appelbaum. this book looks at how communism spread across ancient europe in 1882. this is about how eastern europe became totalitarian. now for the last look. ethiopia has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world. the village of wonchi is no exception. nobody there can read or write. that's why i was astonished when i saw what nicholas' one tablet for one child did there. he dropped a tablet for each child with no instructions. in four minutes, one boy had found the on/off switch. he then taught the others. within a few days, they were each using about 50 apps each per day. they were learning to write letters. and within a month, they were learning to speak them, too. not j
there have been 18 republican presidents of the united states. how many democratic presidents have there been? is it a, 12, b 15, c 18 or d, 26? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. if you ever miss a show go to i tunes.com/fareed. you can get the audio podcast for free or you can buy the video version. this week's book of the week is "iron curtain" by ann appelbaum. this book looks at how communism spread across ancient europe in 1882. this is about how eastern europe...
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there have been 18 republican presidents of the united states. how many democratic presidents have there been? is it a, 12, b, 15, c, 18, or d, 26? stay tuned, and we'll tell you the correct answer. >>> also, if you ever miss a show, go to itunes.com/fareed. you can get the audio podcast for free or you can buy the video version. >>> this week's book of the week is "iron curtain" by past gbs guest. this book looks at how communism spread across eastern europe in the wake of world war ii. >>> we tend to study how countries become democratic. this brilliant book is about the opposite, how eastern europe became totalitarian. and now for the last look. >>> ethiopia has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world. the village here is no exception. nobody there can read or rigwri. that's why i was astonished when i saw what the "one laptop per child" program did there. they dropped them preloaded in the individual of wonchi with no instructions. within four minutes, one boy had found the on/off switch, an unknown enentity in these parts. he then t
there have been 18 republican presidents of the united states. how many democratic presidents have there been? is it a, 12, b, 15, c, 18, or d, 26? stay tuned, and we'll tell you the correct answer. >>> also, if you ever miss a show, go to itunes.com/fareed. you can get the audio podcast for free or you can buy the video version. >>> this week's book of the week is "iron curtain" by past gbs guest. this book looks at how communism spread across eastern europe in the...
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states. >> yes. >> when you look at this map, what do you see. >> what i see is that the united states is a virtual island. atlantic, pacific, canadian arctic to the north, canada is just a thin band of middle class civilization. 33 million people living within a hundred miles of the u.s. border. the united states' real geographic challenge is to the south where much of the border is artificial. where south of the border, you have a country that's so much poorer than the u.s. that the difference in living standards is one of the greatest in the world, you know, except for maybe that between north and south korea. mexico is a country with a much higher rate of population growth. the afternoon mexican in his mid-20s, average american in his late 30s. demographically moving north. that's the real drama going on in the united states. >> but you said something which i thought was interesting. a weak and artificial border between the u.s. and mexico. >> well, there's the rio grande during part of it. it's very narrow actually. and here, these were just lines drawn in the sand. remember. you
states. >> yes. >> when you look at this map, what do you see. >> what i see is that the united states is a virtual island. atlantic, pacific, canadian arctic to the north, canada is just a thin band of middle class civilization. 33 million people living within a hundred miles of the u.s. border. the united states' real geographic challenge is to the south where much of the border is artificial. where south of the border, you have a country that's so much poorer than the u.s....
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right now the united states has no trouble borrowing. in fact, we're borrowing at historically low levels. >> that's very dangerous fareed. i think something paul said is really important. what's happening in europe would be a lesson to us. we still have time to phase this in. if you look in europe the lesson ought to be if you don't deal with the problems the holes get deeper, harder to regain confidence, then at some point you have to take much sharper measures. that means -- that can mean that you have to go through a difficult period to deal with what would otherwise be a deeply dangerous long-term situation. the lesson of europe is act now. >> but the reality -- >> all said, phase it in. and i would at least defer the implementation for a limited period with an enforcement behind that. >> will any of this improve america's employment picture? >> yes. for the very reasons paul said. if you have a sound fiscal program that dealt with our long-term imperative, then i believe, just as paul said, that it would increase business confidenc
right now the united states has no trouble borrowing. in fact, we're borrowing at historically low levels. >> that's very dangerous fareed. i think something paul said is really important. what's happening in europe would be a lesson to us. we still have time to phase this in. if you look in europe the lesson ought to be if you don't deal with the problems the holes get deeper, harder to regain confidence, then at some point you have to take much sharper measures. that means -- that can...
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certainly not the united states of america. america has one of the world's most antique, politicized and dysfunctional procedures for its elections, a crazy quilt patchwork of state and local laws with partisan officials making key decisions and ancient technology that often breaks down. there are no national standards. american voters in more than a dozen states, for example, don't need identification. but even india, with a gdp just 12% that of ours, is implementing a national biometric database for 1.2 billion voters. the nascent democracy in iraq famously dipped voters' fingers in purple to make sure they didn't vote again. why are we so behind the curve in the conservative columnist david frum recently wrote an excellent article for cnn.com and he tells a story about the 2000 presidential election. the city of st. louis, missouri had an outdated voting equipment. so there were long delays in voting. but st. louis was heavily democratic. so al gore's campaign asked a judge to extend voting by three hours. the judge agreed.
certainly not the united states of america. america has one of the world's most antique, politicized and dysfunctional procedures for its elections, a crazy quilt patchwork of state and local laws with partisan officials making key decisions and ancient technology that often breaks down. there are no national standards. american voters in more than a dozen states, for example, don't need identification. but even india, with a gdp just 12% that of ours, is implementing a national biometric...
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certainly not the united states of america. america has one of the world's most antique politicized and disfunctional procedures for is elections, a patchwork of local laws with partisan officials making key decisions and an cement technology that often breaks down. there are no national standards. american voters in more than a dozen states, for example, don't need identification, but even india with a gdp 12% of that of ours is imblue meanting a national database for 1.2 bill voters. the voters in iraq dipped their fingers in purple to make sure they didn't vote again. there was an article recently written for cnn.com and he tells the story about the 2000 presidential election. st. louis, missouri, has outdated voting equipment. st. louis was mostly democratic. george w. bush's campaign protested and the judge was overruled. meanwhile voting had already continued 45 minutes past the legal time. is that how elections should work in the world's greatest democracy? in most other countries an inopinion dent national body would ma
certainly not the united states of america. america has one of the world's most antique politicized and disfunctional procedures for is elections, a patchwork of local laws with partisan officials making key decisions and an cement technology that often breaks down. there are no national standards. american voters in more than a dozen states, for example, don't need identification, but even india with a gdp 12% of that of ours is imblue meanting a national database for 1.2 bill voters. the...